Improvement in washing-machines



To all whom "at may concern:

UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS L. PEIRCE, OF UNION, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES. I

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,574, dated December 19, 1876; application filed June 10, 1876.

Be it known that I, THOMAS L. Palace,

of Union, in the county of Hardin and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

I clear, and exact description otthe construc tibn and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The figures of the drawing are a repre sentation of central vertical sections, one with thelever elevated, and the other with the lever'depressed. I

This invention has relation to washing-ma chines; and the nature of my invention consists in vibratingbeaters having arms rising from them, in combination with toggle-joints and a handlever, as will be hereinafter ex; plained. p

In the annexed drawing, Adesignatcs the box in which the washing is done, and B is the double concave bottom thereof, which rises in the form ofa ridge at a. O O designate perforated beaters,-which are secured to curved arms that vibrate on rods b 11, secured to thejsides of. the box A. The two arms I) described.

" In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence its fulcrum on the upper end of a standard,

H, rising from one side of thewash-boxa J designates a prop, which is pivoted at one corner of the wash-box, and whiclnwhen it is adjusted as shownin Fig. 1, will hold apart the beatersC O, for the purpose of introduc ing fabrics between them.

What 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi In a-washing-niachine having a double concave bottom, B, andperforated beatersG C, the arms I) D and toggle-levers o 0, combined with the hand-lever G, substantially as "of two witnesses. 1

THOMAS L. PEIRGE.

Witnesses:

F. BARNES, B. ALBEETSON. 

